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While his Hollywood fresco, My Life with John F. Donovan, will be presented in a handful of days at the Toronton Festival, Xavier Dolan has already Gun Shy got back to work. Since mid-August, the Quebec filmmaker is filming his next film Matthias and Maxime (Matt & Max in English) where the story of a gang of young boys gradually disintegrated when two of them begin to to fall in love.

Last January, the filmmaker, in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, spoke about his project in these terms: “It will be a mix of Tom on the farm, for its aesthetic side, and the spirit and the Mommy’s energy “. After a French stop (Just the end of the world) and American The Last Full Measure (Donovan so), Dolan will return to his native Quebec. Filmed in French, Matthias and Maxime will feature the filmmaker’s true friends and his eternal filmmaker, Anne Dorval. Finally, Dolan himself will play Max, one of the main roles, proof if it is that Matthias and Maxime marks a sort of homecoming in the filmmaker’s filmography.

After only a few weeks of shooting, the first images of the Paradise Hills film were unveiled by the filmmaker himself via his Instagram account. Sepia lights, retro deco and vintage joggings: no doubt we are in a Dolan movie.